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Night lasts for days on Jannix, a planet with a synodic day of 16 standard days - 145 hours without sunlight. The sun is going down for another long night, and disgraced ex-detective Jack Tarelli has been called to the home of an enigmatic billionaire, just hours after the murder of his only son. Led on a chase deep into a city that never wakes, Jack finds himself on the trail of a killer whose motives remain unclear.

This omnibus collection contains the books New Player in Town, Mech Hunt, and Showdown at Craydon, as well as a previously unpublished prologue story, "Final Days"!

Take a quick journey through three tales that will make you wonder, make you shiver, and make you avoid your own reflection. Buckle up and hang on as Leigh Grissom, author of The Eden Evolution Series, takes a side trip through the darker parts of her mind in her triumphant return to writing short stories.

Although set in Jesus’ time, Bethlehem’s Brothers sounds like an adventure novel set in a third world country during a violent revolt. Two brothers are swept into the conflict early in their lives and struggle to find the strength to survive amidst the death and destruction. Each searches for a savior, but success eludes them until they finally discover one who has been ruthlessly hunted since he was two years old. Who is this revolutionary who challenges the status quo, and should he be trusted?

Once there were two little girls who were very different. One of the little girls had a mean face all the time, but the other little girl was the complete opposite because she always had a smile on her face.

Gerald Lawson just wanted to wrap up the last few hours of his night shift playing Realm Quest, his favorite video game RPG, before kicking off an epic weekend of gaming. But after a strange encounter with an ancient-looking guy who wouldn't be out of place at a cosplay convention, Gerald wakes up inhabiting his character from the game, and the town of Copperton is burning around him.

Tom Woodford can’t believe he’s humanity’s only hope. Awakening from a decade-long coma, he’s shocked to learn a killer virus ravaged the planet, and he’s the last-remaining pure human on Earth. His shock turns to terror when a mysterious woman plucks him from the dripping jaws of a bloodthirsty humanoid monster.

Ex-boxer Lucas Briggs knows two things: First, the man he hunts works for the largest crime ring in Foxgloves Creek. Second, that same man killed his family. By night Briggs is the Nightprowler. He dons a mask as he takes down the syndicate one man at a time. Is Briggs a vigilante? Probably. Is he a hero? Maybe. Is he ticked off? Absolutely.

Set in the same world as the epic fantasy Convent series, beginning with "A Dead Wizard’s Dream", this collection of 11 fantasy short stories takes a closer look at lands and peoples less explored in the Chronicles series so far. From the barbaric and barren Lama Kulul Desert where dwell sinister lizard-men to the lush and lawless Archipelago where barbaric Goblins roam, this adventure-filled anthology is brimming with action, magic and old lore.

It started with the book of Revelations and the seals being broken. Lucifer entered and created havoc and death to those who refused his mark. After the mark, the characters continue to fight to survive unmarked and without capture, but there seems to be no rest for the wicked.

Lucas Hale has known of his potential to be a wizard for most of his life, although he’s spent part of it confined on his grandfather’s farm, being brutally trained in combat and alchemy.

Rust on the Allegheny is a historical fiction novel told through the shifting perspectives of multiple generations of the MacCulloch family, a bloodline said to be cursed by perennial misfortune. It is the story of one family’s messy and at times dysfunctional relationship with their hometown of Latonia City, Pennsylvania, where moldering Victorian manors and empty art deco theaters chronicle the rich heritage and industrial downturn of America’s Rust Belt, with glimpses of hope for the future.